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Again your committee has unanimously rejected that
suggestion because of its built-in tendency for delay and
filibuster.
There was a suggestion that the Chair be
given discretion to determine whether in a particular
instance an amendment had to be printed and distributed
or whether the majority of the delegates should have that
discretion. Again we felt that there would be endless
debate and arguments about a particular case whether an
amendment should be exempted from the rule and another
delegate's proposal was not. So we rejected all of those.
One of the reasons we did so was because of the
administrative procedures which the President and other
officers of the Convention had assured your committee
would be followed the other day in the debate on the
militia. That is that there will be competent secretaries
immediately available, staff help, to prepare and have
reproduced and have distributed any amendment by any
delegate. I think if last, I guess it was the other day's
if that experience is any indication, the procedure
seemed to work only too well. There was no problem about |
